Valerie Plame Wilson. (Photo: Red Maxwell / Flickr)After Valerie Plame: Obama Makes "Fair Game" of Today's Whistleblowers
Art Levine, Truthout: "This week, the taut but surprisingly emotional thriller, 'Fair Game,' hits selected theaters. It's about the Bush administration's retaliation against CIA operative Valerie Plame and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson because he exposed the administration's lies about Iraq buying uranium 'yellow cake' from Niger. But although Wilson and his wife recently returned in triumph to the AFI Theater in Silver Spring for its Washington-area premiere, the event served as a reminder that the damage inflicted on Wilson and Plame continues - both in the form of continuing right-wing smears about them and, some critics say, an Obama presidency that is even worse than the Bush administration in punishing whistleblowers."
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